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Roger Keil

Roger Keil

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Law and Political Science
Canada
2023
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Political Science
Canada
2023

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Political Science

D-Index
44
Citations
9222
World Ranking
381
National Ranking
13

Research.com Recognitions

  • 2023 - Research.com Law and Political Science in Canada Leader Award
  • 2023 - Research.com Political Science in Canada Leader Award
  • 2022 - Research.com Law and Political Science in Canada Leader Award

Overview

Roger Keil is affiliated with York University in Canada and has a significant body of work within the social sciences, particularly focused on urban studies and related interdisciplinary fields. Their research contributions span key areas such as urban planning and governance, geographies of human-animal interactions, COVID-19 epidemiological studies, zoonotic diseases and public health, water governance and infrastructure, urbanization, city planning, and viral infections and outbreaks research.

The scientist has published extensively, with notable recent papers including:

  • Extended urbanisation and the spatialities of infectious disease: Demographic change, infrastructure and governance (2020, Urban Studies)
  • Local response in health emergencies: key considerations for addressing the COVID-19 pandemic in informal urban settlements (2020, Environment and Urbanization)
  • Moving urban political ecology beyond the 'urbanization of nature' (2020, Progress in Human Geography)
  • On the relationships between COVID-19 and extended urbanization (2020, Dialogues in Human Geography)
  • Seeing COVID-19 through an urban lens (2020, Nature Sustainability)

The frequently published venues for Keil's research include disP - The Planning Review, Urban Studies, Journal of Urban Affairs, sub\urban zeitschrift für kritische stadtforschung, and International Journal of Urban and Regional Research.

Collaboration is prominent in Keil's work, with frequent co-authors such as Madeleine Pill, Ismael Blanco, Adrián Bua, Ioannis Chorianopoulos, and Mercè Cortina-Oriol.

In addition to journal articles, Keil has contributed to book publications primarily with Bristol University Press eBooks, University of Toronto Press, and Policy Press. A recurring title is New Developments in Urban Governance (2022), published multiple times by Bristol University Press eBooks and Policy Press. Another book, After Suburbia (2022), was published by University of Toronto Press.

Keil's interdisciplinary approach bridges social sciences with geography, planning and development, political science, general health professions, and sociology, reflecting the diverse scope of their research topics.

Best Publications

  • The global cities reader

    Neil Brenner;Roger Keil

  • “Common–Sense” Neoliberalism: Progressive Conservative Urbanism in Toronto, Canada

    Roger Keil

  • Toronto Inc? Planning the Competitive City in the New Toronto

    Stefan Kipfer;Roger Keil

  • Urban Political Ecology1

    Roger Keil

  • The urban politics of roll‐with‐it neoliberalization

    Roger Keil

  • Local response in health emergencies: key considerations for addressing the COVID-19 pandemic in informal urban settlements

    Annie Wilkinson;Harris Ali;Juliet Bedford;Somsook Boonyabancha

  • Extended urbanisation and the spatialities of infectious disease: Demographic change, infrastructure and governance:

    Creighton Connolly;Roger Keil;S. Harris Ali

  • Los Angeles: Globalization, Urbanization, and Social Struggles

    Roger Keil

  • Changing Toronto: Governing Urban Neoliberalism

    Julie-Anne Boudreau;Roger Keil;Douglas Young

  • Globalization makes states: perspectives of local governance in the age of the world city

    Roger Keil

  • Governing Suburbia: Modalities and Mechanisms of Suburban Governance

    Michael Ekers;Pierre Hamel;Roger Keil

  • Nature and the City: Making Environmental Policy in Toronto and Los Angeles

    Gene Desfor;Roger Keil

  • Progress Report—Urban Political Ecology

    Roger Keil

  • The real creative class

    David Wilson;Roger Keil

  • Global Cities and the Spread of Infectious Disease: The Case of Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome (SARS) in Toronto, Canada:

    S. Harris Ali;Roger Keil

  • Leviathan undone? : towards a political economy of scale

    Roger Keil;Rianne Mahon

  • Suburban Planet: Making the World Urban from the Outside In

    Roger Keil

  • Governance Restructuring in Los Angeles and Toronto: Amalgamation or Secession?

    Roger Keil

  • Reconnecting the disconnected: The politics of infrastructure in the in-between city

    Douglas Young;Roger Keil

  • Networked DIsease: Emerging infections in the global city

    S. Harris Ali;Roger Keil

  • Political Ecology: Global and Local

    Roger Keil

  • The Politics of Post-Suburban Densification in Canada and France

    Eric Charmes;Roger Keil

  • Extended urbanization, “disjunct fragments” and global suburbanisms:

    Roger Keil

Frequent Co-Authors

David Wilson
David Wilson Binghamton University
Neil Brenner
Neil Brenner University of Chicago
Susan Parnell
Susan Parnell University of Cape Town
Fulong Wu
Fulong Wu University College London
Diana Mitlin
Diana Mitlin University of Manchester
Eugene McCann
Eugene McCann Simon Fraser University
Jason Antony Byrne
Jason Antony Byrne University of Tasmania
David Satterthwaite
David Satterthwaite International Institute for Environment and Development
Mike Crang
Mike Crang Durham University
Sally Theobald
Sally Theobald Liverpool School of Tropical Medicine

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